The Drunken Forest Author:Gerald Durrel Geral Durrell is amoung the best seling suthors in English. his adventurous spirit and his spontaneous gift for narrative and anecdote stand out in his accoutns of expeditions to Afica and South America in search of rare animals. he divines the characters of these creatures with the same clear, humorous and unsentimental eyes with which he reg... more »ards those chanc ehuman acquanintances whose conversatin in remote places he often reproduces in all its devastating and garbles originality. To have maintained, for over fifteen years, such unfailing standards of entertainment can only be described as a triumph. The Argentine pampas and the little-known Chaco territory of Paraguay provide the setting for The Drunken Forest. With Durrell for interpreter, an orange armadillo, or a horned toad, or a crab-eating racoon suddenly discovers the ability not merely to set you laughing but actually to endear itself to you. "his sympath with the animal world encourages the Disney in every creature to show itself" - Time and Tide.« less